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Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feedback
I tried it but the report was badly rendered. I got text in a text box repeated (the textbox appeared twice).
Now forgive me for my bluntness, but I have to take something out of my chest: I always expected the export to Power Point to have a degree of interaction (like SAP's Crystal Xcelcius does). Again, sorry for the bluntness but I see no value in this functionality as it currently stands. Nothing much to see or test in it.
Yo might wonder why am I being so negative about a functionality that has just been released in preview? Well... Here is what I think that will happen (based on my previous experience with feedbacks for Power BI): Even though interaction was a pivotal point of this feature request, it will not be delivered. The feature request will be marked as complete, though. And we will have to re-submit the feature request all over again... 😞 😞 😞
Please prove me wrong!
Hi pmdci,
It is unfortunate that the feature is not useful for you as it is.
From the user research that we have done prior to developing this feature, interactivity was not a top ask (to our surprise), and you can see evidence of that by looking at the responses in this thread (and the original feature request). We did not communicate at any point that interactivity will be part of the feature. sorry if you thought otherwise.
Of course I'm not implying that interactivty is not important. on the contrary, it is a very important capability of Power BI reports, even in PowerPoint, but given the heavy investments it requires in the service, we can't put it on the roadmap just yet.
Regarding the text box issues you encountered, my guess is that it is because you have a background image or a background shape behind the text. If you remove the backgrounds, the text should be fine. We are aware of this issue and working to fix it in future releases.
Thanks,
Tzvi
Hi tzvikei
Thank you for the response.
About the textbox, I have a background colour -- not image. But I am glad you are aware of this issue.
Thanks as well for sharing your views on the interactivity. I have to say I am as surprised as you are, because as far as I rememeber there were all sorts of comments about interactivity in the uservoice submission. If interactivity is not important, then I can simply put the report in full screen, press "Print Screen" then paste it on a PowerPoint slide. Or use the snippit tool or Snaggit for something more sophisticated.
From what I see in the feedback of this post, Filtering is quite important. Isn't that interactivity? Also I am sure that all of those who voted in that uservoice request might not be as active in participating in this forum -- let alone be aware that this post requesting feedback exist :smileywink:
Thanks again!
P.
PS: I just saw Patrick's comments above and clearly I am not the only one here speaking my mind :smileyvery-happy: . I know that he seemed more passionate on his criticism, but I understand his frustration. In particular Microsoft keeps us in the dark concerning the development of the product. Clearly those of us who signed an NDA with Microsoft require access to a roadmap. We cannot be selling Power BI based on non-substantial promises!
Try removing the background colour in the textbox as a temporary solution.
The value of using the images that are produced when exporting to PPT, is that the images are high-resolution and look sharp when stretched to fit entire slides. This is something that is hard to when doing screen capture, unless you are prepared to stitch images or you have a 4K monitor.
Filtering is considered in-session interactivity, and will be supported at some point, but will still be captured as an image. I thought your request was for the report to be interactive inside PowerPoint (so you can interact with the charts while in PowerPoint).
I am hoping to get as much feedback as possible, that is why I added a link to this post both in the blog post, and the user voice ticket. Hopefully we will see many requests for interactivity and put it on the roadmap. As I said, I agree with you that this is an important feature, it's just a bit different than what we currently targeted at the moment - which is to put great looking snapshots of your reports and in a PPT deck for presentations.
Thanks for your feedback,
Tzvi
Yom tov tzvikei,
Well if the interaction would still work with static data then this is the first time I am hearing about it. I think this goes back to the communication between the team and the community -- at least with those of us that have an NDA with Microsoft.
I am glad you see the importance of the interaction. In particular what I would like to see if a similar what-if analysis that exists in Crystal Xcelcius being used in Power BI. That was a killer feature that brought presentations to life.
I get what you said about 4K resolution but to me tha is champagne problems. I am biased because I know how to get around this :smileylol:
- I am very surprised that interactivity did not rate. What we need is reports that can be customised in PPT and then have the data updated or filtered straight into the report based on an updated PBI file. Static reports deliver limited functionality for us and I was expecting a lot more.
